What is the name of the key below Esc

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There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab, it has a
kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a 'grave' accent.

Does anyone know what it's called?

I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch programming, pipe was
always the vertical line above the windows key and to the right of shift. If
that's pipe, what's the one below esc?

Many thanks
 
Michelle said:
There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab,
it has a kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a
'grave' accent.
Does anyone know what it's called?

I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch programming,
pipe was always the vertical line above the windows key and to the
right of shift. If that's pipe, what's the one below esc?
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What language is your keyboard?
Below my ESC key is '~' and '`'... (tilde and
I guess the number 1 and '!' (exclamation mark) could be what you are
talking about?

Turn on your on-screen keyboard - because I do not know what language/type
of keyboard you are using from your description.
 
You may well be aware that "Michelle said:
There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab, it has
a kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a 'grave' accent.

Does anyone know what it's called?

I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch programming, pipe was
always the vertical line above the windows key and to the right of shift.
If that's pipe, what's the one below esc?

Many thanks
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Dunno, but the 'escape pipe key' might be a good name for it .if there is no
other ;-)
 
Michelle said:
There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab,
it has a kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a
'grave' accent.
Does anyone know what it's called?

I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch programming, pipe
was always the vertical line above the windows key and to the right
of shift. If that's pipe, what's the one below esc?

Many thanks
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Heh, you numpty, totally dependent on language/region/keyboard type
(notebook vs compact vs fullsize).

BTW - The key you refer to *is* the pipe key .... I bet you can't find
another on your keyboard can you ??
 
On British keyboards, it's called the NOT sign ¬. Alt + 0172 = ¬. That key
also has the grave accent and the pipe.

<quote>
For its UK layout, Microsoft accordingly adds an AltGr key, maps the £ to
where the US layout has a #, and adds a 102nd key to accommodate the #. A
few other variations (the reversals of @ and ", and the movement of ~ to the
# key to accommodate a ¬ on the backquote key, and the movement of the \ key
to the left of Z) have also crept in between the two. On laptop computers,
the | and \ key is often placed next to the space bar, and a Function key
added.
<quote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

British and American keyboards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

British keyboard picture...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...d_Kingdom.svg/800px-KB_United_Kingdom.svg.png

On US keyboards...

This is a pipe: |||||. Shift + backslash key.

Also called vertical bar, verti-bar, vertical line, divider line, or pipe is
the name of the character (|).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar

Tilde key. ~ is called a tilde.

<quote>
~ is the tilde, an accent backspaced and printed over other letters for
non-English languages. Nowadays the key does not produce a backspaceable
character and is used for 'not' or 'circa'.

` is a grave accent or backtick, also formerly backspaced over letters to
write non-English languages; on some systems it is used as an opening quote.
The single quote ' is normally used for an acute accent.
<quote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard

Tilde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

Grave accent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Michelle said:
There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab,
it has a kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a
'grave' accent.
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First of all, please note that you are addressing people all over the world,
and there are many styles of keyboards in use in different parts of the
world. To name just two, the US keyboard differs substantially from the UK
keyboard. So since we can't see your keyboard, we can't tell what key is
below the escape key on *your* keyboard.

On *my* keyboard (a US one) that key is a grave accent, and a tilde (~) when
shifted. From your description that doesn't seem to be what you have, so I
suspect, but can't be sure, that you have a UK keyboard.
 
~ Look in All programs/accessories/character map.

~

tilde







message | Michelle wrote:
| > There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and
abive tab,
| > it has a kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the
middle and a
| > 'grave' accent.
| > Does anyone know what it's called?
| >
| > I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch
programming, pipe
| > was always the vertical line above the windows key and
to the right
| > of shift. If that's pipe, what's the one below esc?
| >
| > Many thanks
|
| Heh, you numpty, totally dependent on
language/region/keyboard type
| (notebook vs compact vs fullsize).
|
| BTW - The key you refer to *is* the pipe key .... I bet
you can't find
| another on your keyboard can you ??
|
| --
| Cheerz - Brownz
| http://www.brownz.org/
|
|
 
I'm using a UK keyboard and tilde is the Shift+ function of the hash key
just left of the Enter key. The key below Esc is as Michelle describes but
I don't know what it's called.
 
tilde key

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tilde

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
If you looked at the link provided for UK\Ireland keyboards, you'd see that
the tilde (~) is next to their Enter key. Likewise, it is not the Pipe
either as that is located next to their left hand Shift key. I only know the
name of one of the symbols and that's a backward tick. The other two are
unknown to me, though I've seen them both before.
 
Michelle said:
There is a key to the left of the numbers, below esc and abive tab, it has a
kind of 'hook' a 'pipe' with a gap in the middle and a 'grave' accent.

Does anyone know what it's called?

I have heard it called pipe, but when we did batch programming, pipe was
always the vertical line above the windows key and to the right of shift. If
that's pipe, what's the one below esc?

Many thanks
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Well, the squiggle is a tilde `~`. (at least that is what's on the key
underneath my esc key)

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On that key on my MS Wireless KB, I have the tild (~) and and backwards
apostrophe (`).

Different keyboards might show different layouts slightly.

The "pipe" (|) on my KB is next to the square bracket/brace (], }) above
"Enter" key.
 
I'd call it a "backwards" apostrophe or quote mark....?

Then you'd be wrong. ````` is a grave accent or backtick, but I call it
Ralph.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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